During the past week a delegation, led by Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia, Radovan Žerjav M.Sc., and successfully organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia, visited Sao Paulo, Brazil. Among delegates – the Director General for Tourism and Internationalization, Marjan Hribar M.Sc, CEO of SID Bank, Svilan Sibil, CEO of the Iskra Avtoelektrika, Edvin Sever, Director of International Relations at the Slovenian Chamber of Economy, Aleš Cantarutti, Sales Manager at the Port of Koper, Sara Morato, and many other representatives of 26 Slovenian companies and institutions – were also President of PanSlovenian Shareholders' Association (VZMD), Kristjan Verbič M.Sc., and Secretary General of VZMD, Sarah Kavšek.

Representatives of VZMD took the opportunity of the visit especially for the integration of Slovenian and Brazilian companies at the international investors' exposition and "investo Expo" conference, that will be organized within the "investors' Week" and the invest-to.net network – which is part of the VZMD program investo.si, and held on 20 and 21 September in Ljubljana Cankar Hall (VIDEO PROJECTIONS by clicking on the image to the left).

During a number of bilateral meetings and conferences Mr. Verbič and Mrs. Kavšek arranged reestablishment of the direct connection among investors' exposition and conference "investo Expo" and the largest investors' exposition in Latin America "Expo Money", which is going to take place in September in Sao Paulo. Among other things, they conducted conversations with representatives of several major Brazilian investment funds and institutions, and met with the director of the Federation of Industries of the State of Sao Paulo (FIESP) and Deputy Director for International Affairs and Foreign Trade (DEREX), Newton de Mello, the Director of investment agency of Sao Paulo INVESTE SP, Serbio Rodrigues Costa, the Director of Foreign Relations at the SENAI SP, Roberto Monteiro Spada, the Representative of the Agency of Sao Paulo to promote investment and competition, Renata de Barros, the Director of world-renowned Institute Butantan, Jorge Kalil, the Director of the Scientific Foundation of the State of Sao Paulo (FAPESP), prof. José Humberto Brito Cruz, etc..

In addition, the two representatives of VZMD attended the reception at the famous Slovenian-Brazilian family Hlebanja, where the delegation members met with a number of Slovenian businessmen in Brazil and Brazilian businessmen to cooperate with Slovenia, and with Mr. Žerjav visited a brand-new showroom of Gorenje, which was established by a renowned Slovenian businessman Drago Urankar or Urankar Brasil company and his colleagues on the elite Avenida Brasil.